Since these are your libraries' records, you can certainly download them again from OCLC. I've also known libraries in the past that have been able to have oclc generate a subset of records from their database -- though in these cases, this always has involved a cost to purchase the records. In terms of how easy it is to do on your own -- if you don't have OCLC do it, you would likely need a list of all the OCLC numbers that you are interested in. With that list, you could easily batch export the data again from Worldcat using Connexion.
--TR > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Alberto Accomazzi > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:35 AM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: [CODE4LIB] getting Worldcat records > > Our project maintains a database of bibliographic metadata for all > things in astronomy and most of physics. We'd like to add records for > books that have been recently added to our library and to correlate > existing records with the library holdings. Sounds easy enough, but > because of the intricacies of Harvard libraries administration we > haven't been able to get a dump of the records, much less a feed. > > The recent emails about OCLC worldcat records made me wonder if we > could > get the equivalent data from them (since our library subscribes to > them). Essentially what I'd like is a dump of all QB and QC records in > OCLC entered by Harvard, so we can index them and then point to the > library record in OCLC. Is this (a) legal, (b) feasible, (c) easy? I > assume the answer to (a) and (b) is yes, since we have our library's > support. If not, are there alternatives? I learned about openlibrary > only yesterday, so I haven't had a chance to explore what's in it > yet... > > Thanks, > > -- Alberto
